Trends in engineering education for additive manufacturing in the industry 4.0 era: a systematic literature review
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Trends in engineering education for additive manufacturing in the industry 4.0 era: a systematic literature review Barbara Motyl1
· Stefano Filippi2
Received: 10 March 2020 / Accepted: 6 October 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Additive manufacturing represents one of the most promising and innovative technologies of the moment. In fact, it is considered among the nine technological pillars on which Industry 4.0 is based. In particular, it has received a lot of interest from industries, educational institutions and government agencies. For these reasons, it is necessary to develop and train a specialised workforce and to prepare it for these new opportunities. This work aims to investigate, through the completion of a survey based on a systematic review of the literature, the current state of education and dissemination of educational practices related to the training of young engineers at university on the issues of additive manufacturing and related to Industry 4.0. The results show that the introduction of additive manufacturing education represents an important leverage in the preparation of young engineers who benefit from it both in terms of personal preparation and in terms of learning and refining different skills. However, certain aspects, linked to the need to have adequate equipment and a properly trained teaching staff, should not be overlooked. Keywords Industry 4.0 · Additive manufacturing · 3D printing · Engineering education · Systematic literature review
1 Introduction and background Additive Manufacturing—AM—is formally defined as the “process of joining materials to make parts from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer” [1]. It represents one of the most promising and innovative technologies at the moment. In fact, it is considered among the nine technological pillars on which Industry 4.0 is based [2]. Previously perceived only as a rapid prototyping technique, AM has now evolved into a real production process for the production of fully functional objects with an increasing diffusion in different industrial sectors [3–5]. In particular, of vital importance, from the point of view of the evolution of the production system, and considering the spread of digitalization practices inherent to Industry 4.0,and the need to train technical
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Barbara Motyl [email protected] Stefano Filippi [email protected]
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DMIF, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, Udine, Italy
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DPIA, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, Udine, Italy
professionals with new skills and in step with the times, is the proper education in the use of these new technologies [6]. This work wants to investigate, through the completion of a survey based on systematic literature review, the current state of the dissemination of the educational practices related to the training of young engineers in university on AM issues. The document is organized as follows. After the introductory section, Sect. 2 describes the research method adopted. Then, in Sect. 3 a meta-analysis of the data
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